A fine Ketch
Posted on 07/14/2011 9:06:55 PM PDT by Kartographer
Even if you are fortunate enough to have a retreat out in the country getting to your safe haven maybe impossible during upheaval. Roads blocked by wrecked and fuelless vehicles will stop most bugouters in their tracks. Maybe you were born lucky and can make it out safely before the balloon bursts, then what? People in rural areas, will start shooting if threatened by mobs of refugees fleeing the city. Don’t expect to be welcomed with arms outstretched. Most country folks don’t trust outsiders; you will likely be greeted with a load of buckshot and not the cup of fresh coffee and meaningful conversation you hoped for.
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You are correct. We do have a couple of working compasses and stacks of maps, including very detailed ones of the valley I live in and surrounding mountains. We’re sort of into the map thing.
There could always be a forest fire that would force us out, can’t imagine much else.
I don’t want anybody’s dander up. Everybody’s circumstances are different. My boat could be trapped in a marina and never make it to the ocean, and so on. Or the balloon could go up while we’re a thousand miles from home. My only zone of disagreement was what I took to be your rather blase attitude toward the threat infiltrators would make. I think a lot of folks in general think that a zone of fire and a rifle or rifles will keep them safe from attack, and I think they often fail to consider that the attackers can also have rifles and fire from ambush in a sneak attack. The dumb refugees will all be dead. The ones who survive to make it to the retreats will be smart and will have honed their raid tactics, and will have picked up good weapons along the way. I wish us all good luck, we’ll all need it, along with our preps and our faith and our families. I wish disparagement on no sincere freeper here, so I’m sorry if my tone was over the line. For that I sincerely apologize. I hope we are still freeping away in peace a decade hence, and are not crouching over hidden campfires. —Matt
Any useable caves in your area? :)
Amen. I met a guy who fell off a big sportfisher after leaving Bimini for Fort Lauderdale. By the time the others, asleep below, noticed he was gone, miles had gone by. He spent 48 hours treading water in the Gulfstream with one arm, the other being dislocated falling from the tower over the gunnel into the water. They had just come from a big Hatteras Bertram Shootout, adn he had a bunch of poker winnings from the associated partying and card playing in his pockets. He tread water for two days, thinking he was a dead man. All the while he thought of the things he could have purchased in any West Marine or Boat US store with the cash in his pockets. Rafts, flares, beacons and so on. But he had only the paper money and no chance to get to those stores. He was plucked from the water after dawn on the third day, and lived to tell the tale to me.
Tons of ‘em. ;-)
What a story. I hope the paper money wasn’t ruined!
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Our personal situations are very different in many ways from one of us to another. For example, my perceptions of being situated in a city or anyplace on most of the terrain of our country are less clear than for most of you (except for my past training and experiences). Here, the climate and distances are far more dangerous than violent criminals can be.
Oh, yeah, I’ve lived in all kinds of places in the past but haven’t seen for over a decade, what most of the rest of you regularly see. Likewise for nearly all of you regarding this place (somewhat like Mars)—even those who’ve often visited. Prairie dogs here carry the Bubonic Plague, BTW. My overseas shots for that expired over 10 years ago, so no prairie dog stew, even if the SHTF. ;-)
I will agree with that. THe US is a vastly different culture than that of the Argies.
That could lead one to believe that things could be far worse here than was seen in SA. Far worse.
And Argentina’s collapse happened as a stand alone situation. Now the whole world is practically aflame. Or collapsing, or whatever one wants to call it.
Here’s another possible disaster scenario in the making now.
Outcasts:Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerly Middle Class Americans Will Be Sleeping In Their Cars
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2749652/posts
There’s a clue for anyone in open and notorious use of government regulations (including local) or support from foreign communist and Islamist nations against one’s own countrymen in lieu of traditional competition: that is, invention, design, building and continued hard work related to domestic production (manufacturing).
I've told them 'driveway'. Amazing how many people think that they're that good of a friend to me. I'm stockpiling extra for my family, and ONE friend (with her family).
I've got about a dozen of the bricks. They stack nicely.
No, that fine ketch was just grabbed from google images to illustrate the concept. And the smaller boats above it might even be better survival platforms, due to lower upkeep costs and a lower profile generally. My escape pod is about at reply 64 or so.
Thanks for sharing!! Are your novels available on Kindle or Audible.com??
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